The project's nearly 3,000 source packages can be used to build some 12,000 Zaurus applications, according to the project's release master, Marcin Juszkiewicz. “While few applications are included in the basic OpenZaurus distribution, developers [can] assemble custom PDAs from a wealth of available, reusable open source software,” Juszkiewicz said.

Support for Sharp's hard-drive equipped Cxx00-series Zaurus models is expected to arrive in a few weeks, with the planned release of a 3.5.4.1 version. Juszkiewicz notes, “Due to a lot of problems with 2.4.20 on cxx00 machines we have decided to not release 3.5.4 for those machines. It does not makes sense to release 3.5.4 with crappy cxx00 support and then lose our reputation when some weeks later we could have 3.5.4.1 with proper cxx00 support.”

Additional details about OpenZaurus 3.5.4, including important release notes, installation instructions, and downloads, can be found at the OpenZaurus website, here.